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Chiefs strike it big with signing of Holmes

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Wednesday, November 6, 2002

Carl Peterson, the Kansas City Chiefs' leading executive for 14 seasons, has made some impressive acquisitions. He engineered a trade with the 49ers for quarterback Joe Montana, a three-time Super Bowl MVP. After he convinced Raiders running back Marcus Allen, the Super Bowl XVIII MVP, to join Montana, the Chiefs made the playoffs two years straight. In 2001, Peterson managed to lure head coach Dick Vermeil -- with whom he had collaborated at UCLA and the Philadelphia Eagles -- out of retiremen ...

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